Ada Lovelace: Mathematician and First Programmer

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ADA LOVELACE Quick Fact In 1855 a Swedish company made a calculator based on Babbage’s machine but the modern electronic computer was not developed until much later worked Instead Babbage’s machine called for more than fifty thousand moving parts It was so complicated that the machine was never constructed constructed during Babbage’s lifetime But it is still considered considered to be the first computer Ada Lovelace created a set of commands that would have worked on Babbage’s machine had it ever been built Only a small part of Babbage’s computer was built during his lifetime The machine was designed to follow instructions that people entered using punched cards 6